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“I’m happy,” read the text message from Alex Cora late Sunday morning, roughly 12 hours after he was fired by the Red Sox.

Just two words, but they said everything.

There was no elaboration, and none was needed. Cora was hungry to join the Red Sox when he was first hired in 2017 and has since watched one star player after another chased away by an organization that claims it is driven to win but has taken one wrong turn after another in recent years.

A smiling Cora posed for a photo with the other scapegoats from his staff on Saturday night and posted it on his Instagram. You’d be smiling, too, if you had a contract through 2027. Or he could choose to get back in the game with another team. MLB Network would be interested, too.

TO THE LINKS

PAINFUL MOVE: Shocked, disappointed, and on the verge of anger, Red Sox players tried to understand the organization’s decision to fire Cora — processing the paradigm shift without much of an explanation from their bosses. Tim Healey has the reaction from the players.

ABOUT YESTERDAY: The Sox hit, pitched, and ran their way to a 5-3 win over the Orioles on Sunday, their second in a row and first under interim manager Chad Tracy. Healey has the game story.

Here is the box score.

STEADY DECLINE: The decision Saturday to fire Cora after eight years with the franchise may have seemed sudden, but the decline from a team that won the World Series in his first season to one sitting in last place in the AL East has been gradual and persistent. Julian Benbow takes a look.

FAMILIAR LOOK: In a here-we-go-again scene that was both utterly shocking yet at the same time all too familiar, Red Sox brass put on their most serious faces as they tried, once again, to defend the indefensible, and explain the unexplainable. Tara Sullivan has more on what team president and CEO Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said on Sunday.

GET TO KNOW CHAD: Tracy may be new to fans — and the bright public spotlight — but he is not new to the Red Sox. Healey has five things to know about Tracy.

NOT HIS FAULT: The Red Sox are a clown show. They are the Chuck Sullivan-Clive Rush Boston Patriots. They are the San Diego Clippers under Donald Sterling. They are the 21st-century New York Jets. Dan Shaughnessy weighs in on the move to dismiss Cora.

LOOKING BACK: Amin Touri and Andrew Mahoney take a look at Cora’s Red Sox career, on the field and in the dugout.

PICTURE THIS: Take a look back at Cora's career with the Red Sox in photos.

ABOUT TONIGHT: The Red Sox continue their road trip with a three-game series at Toronto. Ranger Suarez will be on the mound for Monday's opener. Here is a preview.

See more of our Red Sox coverage here.

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